Before creating master cloned lab image for your lab, you have to ‘unlock’ the master machine. It appears as though your master machine was ‘locked’ and therefore cloned images were also 'locked'. These cloned images will not run.

From the master machine and a DOS prompt in the eviews directory, type ‘eviews6.exe –unlock’. Be sure to clone the machine without restarting EViews. Your cloned machines should now run just fine. Please note if EViews is restarted on the master machine prior to cloning, it will need to be ‘unlocked’ again.